an old boy told me many years ago about a method of treating woodworm it involved a cone shaped item(like a firework) that was placed in the attic and set alight, it gave off vast plumes of white smoke which I guess contained the nasty stuff that did the killing and you had to stay away from the house for 24hrs has anyone heard of this treatment ? or anything like it ? if you have can you tell me!
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yes but i think the hse would take a dim veiw now 
Isn't this what is known as "fumegation"?
You seal up all the doors and windows, fill the house with something nasty. Although I thought this was usually done with larger bugs, like cockroaches and wasps.
If the airtightness between semi/terraced houses is anything like that between me and my chain-smoking neighbour then I really wouldn't want to live near anybody who set one of these bug-bombs off!
You seal up all the doors and windows, fill the house with something nasty. Although I thought this was usually done with larger bugs, like cockroaches and wasps.
If the airtightness between semi/terraced houses is anything like that between me and my chain-smoking neighbour then I really wouldn't want to live near anybody who set one of these bug-bombs off!
there was an episode of either hart to hart or that other one with susan st james which i can't remember, basically the two heroes of the series wake up one morning to find that all the cutlery has disappeared from the draws and all the doors and windows are nailed shut and the telephone lines are cut , whereupon they discover a tent over the entire house which gets filled with fumegation gas, i can't remember how they escape in the end, does anyone else remember this episode?
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I think that they used to paint the timbers with parrafin to treat wordworm aswell???
I wouldn't recommend this though!
I wouldn't recommend this though!
mildmanneredjanitor said:I think that they used to paint the timbers with parrafin to treat wordworm aswell???
I wouldn't recommend this though!
Could be pretty conclusive, with a box of Swan vestas to hand !
I remember someone setting off one of those 'fumigators' in the local church hall during a movie evening ... the smoke level quite neatly builds down from the ceiling and becomes visibly measurable across the silver screen, 'til someone shouts 'F'ing 'ell - FIRE' !! Every one leaped up and scarpered PDQ !! Except the poor old projectionist concerned his kit was about to go up in flames, he stoicaly stuck it out til the projector was safely clear!! ...
I remember the film at the time .. Pathe news .. Boxing, well, ultimately a free for all, ostensibly Dick Richardson versus Brian London, but several spectators could be added to the roll call after the bout !! anyone who saw that will know what I mean !!
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My father used to use those smoke cartridges, they were sold under the brand-name 'Fumite' though they were actually made by one of the well-known firework companies, might have been pains-wessex but I could be wrong about that.
There were two classes of Fumite, one for the greenhouse to kill red spider and other plant pests and the other for wood borers. When I got a house of my own, I started to use them in the roof-space in Spring and Autumn. Trouble was, the staff in B**ts didn't know which counter they were stocked on and I used to get referred to the garden requisites counter. Eventually I asked the makers and they insisted it was the household counter; have you ever noticed how cross shop assistants get when you tell them how their shop is organised! Especially if you turn out to be right!
I discontinued using them when I discovered that while they are good for furniture beetle and powder-post beetle, they aren't effective against house longhorn beetle which was the big danger in the Home Counties. That was some years ago; they might have developed an anti-longhorn type now.
Needless to say, you need to take precautions before letting-off pyrotechnics in the roof space but they're not usually prone to act like a roman candle, they usually just emit smoke.
There were two classes of Fumite, one for the greenhouse to kill red spider and other plant pests and the other for wood borers. When I got a house of my own, I started to use them in the roof-space in Spring and Autumn. Trouble was, the staff in B**ts didn't know which counter they were stocked on and I used to get referred to the garden requisites counter. Eventually I asked the makers and they insisted it was the household counter; have you ever noticed how cross shop assistants get when you tell them how their shop is organised!
Especially if you turn out to be right! I discontinued using them when I discovered that while they are good for furniture beetle and powder-post beetle, they aren't effective against house longhorn beetle which was the big danger in the Home Counties. That was some years ago; they might have developed an anti-longhorn type now.
Needless to say, you need to take precautions before letting-off pyrotechnics in the roof space but they're not usually prone to act like a roman candle, they usually just emit smoke.
We do have our foibles in the attics !!
I always use a can of wasp killer around March time ... I think it tends to bump off the odd queen about to awaken from winter slumbers ... Had a nest almost every year, until I started that procedure .. is it co-incidence or making a difference ? Who knows ? ... costs £50 for the pest control to destroy the nest, coupla quid for the spray.. so will carry on the treatment until I have a revisit .... Jeez there are thousands of woodland acres nearby, plenty of room for the hot a ssed bu99ers !!
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I always use a can of wasp killer around March time ... I think it tends to bump off the odd queen about to awaken from winter slumbers ... Had a nest almost every year, until I started that procedure .. is it co-incidence or making a difference ? Who knows ? ... costs £50 for the pest control to destroy the nest, coupla quid for the spray.. so will carry on the treatment until I have a revisit .... Jeez there are thousands of woodland acres nearby, plenty of room for the hot a ssed bu99ers !!
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